QUACK, quack, quack ... If you were a kid in the 90s, those three words probably just got you very excited.

In 1992 Disney released The Mighty Ducks, a sports movie about a washed up hockey player who got done for drink driving and had to coach a kids hockey team as part of his community service.

The movie was such a hit that it spawned two sequels and led to the creation of an actual Mighty Ducks NHL team.

Here are some things you never knew about the classic kids movie:

The movie wasn’t originally going to be so innocent: “The draft I wrote in that apartment was much darker,” said writer Steve Brill to Time magazine.

“It wasn’t a Disney movie. There weren’t murders or anything, but there was some adult romance. And a lot of hockey — that was always the key thing.

The Mighty Ducks cast, aka legends.Source:Supplied

“As far as dark humour, there was always that DUI at the beginning, and I don’t think it would hold up right now in a Disney movie. Then in the movie there are sort of having-sex-with-your-mother jokes in there and flatulence jokes, and guys are getting hit in the nuts.”

The director, Pete Berg, originally wanted to play the role of Coach Gordon Bombay: “I was sort of starting out as an actor, and the plan was originally that I was going to star in it,” said Berg.

“We went in there and Steve (Brill) said, ‘Here’s my man.’ And the financiers kind of looked at me and then looked at Steve and were like, ‘Yeah. No, he’s not your man, Steve.’

“So, Emilio Estevez was the man, and, you know, the rest is history.”

Some of the actors lied about being able to skate: Matt Doherty, who played Les Averman, was just one of the kids who bent the truth in order to land his role.

“I’d lied and said I knew how to skate,” Doherty said to Time.

“And then you get on the set, and you find the joke is usually on you because the director and producers know actors are probably lying.”

Emilio Estevez wasn’t the first choice to play Coach Bombay.Source:News Corp Australia

The film’s producer, Jordan Kerner, was well aware that some of the young actors weren’t telling the truth about their ability on the ice, so he set up training camps.

“Half of our kids had never skated before and had to learn to skate,” said Kerner.

“And half of our kids who skated, they had to learn to act. And so we literally had acting boot camp and skating boot camp. I wanted to have 12 or 16 weeks to do that.”

The actor who was originally cast as Andrew Banks was fired: “One of the young actors was being a little bit of a bully to some of the other kids,” said producer Jordan Kerner.

“He wasn’t as good a skater as he needed to be, but he thought of himself as a great performer, and his mother thought of him as Marlon Brando or Brad Pitt or whatever — someone who was a dramatic actor.”

The character of Andrew Banks was eventually played by Vincent A. Larusso.Source:YouTube

After a few too many “incidents”, Kerner decided that the actor had to go and he sacked him.

“And we took one of our other kids from a much smaller role and moved him into that role,” said Kerner, “And he just was terrific”.

Filming in freezing cold Minnesota proved challenging for the cast: “We we were in the midst of filming the scene where there’s a kiss between Emilio Estevez and Heidi Kling, who plays Josh’s mum, in 55 degrees below zero in St. Paul,” said producer Jordan Kerner.

“And when they kissed, their lips stuck together. We had to get makeup to grab warm water and put droplets on their lips so they could actually separate.”

Most of the actors returned in the second Mighty Ducks movie.Source:YouTube

The Mighty Ducks actors became famous, which wasn’t always such a good thing: “I remember getting concussed in my last hockey game in high school because everybody wanted to check the Mighty Duck, you know?” said the actor who played Les Averman.

A fourth Mighty Ducks movie could happen: “There have been a number of times that we have discussed with the studio the idea of either bringing it back and bringing it back possibly with one or two of the guys who are now in their thirties as the coaches, and having a few more of them be their friends in their lives and having the kids come back,” said Jordan Kerner to Time.

“And I’ve been pitched a story two or three times. It hasn’t been the right story yet, but the idea of doing that is something Steve and I have talked about and actually Disney and I have talked about.”

Joshua Jackson would be keen to appear in another Mighty Ducks movie.Source:Getty Images

And if there is another movie, Joshua Jackson (who played Charlie Conway) would definitely be interested.

“I feel like a fourth film should happen, and if there was space for any of the original kids that come back and have a role, I would be surprised that anybody didn’t want to do it,” said Jackson.